Kanoelani Patterson
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I am 40 years old living in Lawton, Oklahoma. I am a SHW Black & fat-positive powerlifter. I currently hold a master’s degree in social work (MSW) & am a licensed masters social worker (LMSW) and am under clinical supervision for licensure as a clinical social worker & I work in a community mental health center as a children’s therapist & supervisor/team lead. I practice an anti-diet philosophy & from a liberationist framework & believe you can be active without striving for intentional weight loss. I intuitively eat and believe that food is more than calories and fuel: food is culture, food is love, food is memories, etc. I believe freedom can be found in movement & food but to do that we have to decolonize the way we view the to. WE ARE ENOUGH AS WE ARE & should be affirmed as such. My work is towards liberation(Black, body, fat liberation etc) as a whole from all the systems of oppression that are keeping us in shackles. We deserve FREEDOM!